WWII

Holocaust

Jan 30, 1933

Mass killing of Jews by Germany.

Germany Invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland.

Stalin Attacks Finland

Nov 30, 1939

This ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty, League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled Soviet Union from League.

Winston Churchill Becomes Prime Minister of Britain

May 10, 1940

Replace Nevill Chamberlain as Prime Minister following latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in House of Commons.

Germany attacks France

Jun 22, 1940

German forces defeated allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France.

Battle of Britain

Jul 10, 1940

Bombing of Britain by Luftwaft.

Lend-Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

Congress authorized the sale, lease, or exchanging of arms and supplies.

Hitler Takes Over the Balkans

Apr 6, 1941

He did this to order sucure Gremany's Balkan flank for operation Barbarossa.

German Blitzkrieg on Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Largest German military operation of WWII. Dec. 18, 1940 was the first operational order for invasion of Soviet Union.

Bombing od Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombed the place making U.S. enter the war. Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan.

Japanese Internment Camps

Feb 19, 1942

Japanese Americans was forced relocation and incarcinated in camps.

Battle of Midway

Jun 3, 1942

A decisive naval battle in Pacific Theatre of WWII.

Guadalcanal

Aug 7, 1942

An operation to take the island of Tulagi by Allied forces.

Battle of El Alamein

Oct 23, 1942

Trying to grant access to the Suez Canal(oil).

Battle of Stalinburg

Feb 2, 1943

Major battle which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Untied States for the control over the city Stalinburg in Sounthern Russia.

Tehran Conference

Nov 28, 1943

A strategy meeting with Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

F.D.R Death

Apr 12, 1945

He had polio in his legs. So it made him paralyzed.

Mussolini's Assassination

Apr 28, 1945

Italian Fascist dictator. He was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.

Hitler's Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Dictator of Germany kills himself, took a capsule of cyanide and shoot himself with a pistol.

Potsdam Conference

Jul 17, 1945

Held at Cecilienkof, home of Prince Wilhelm, conference to negotiate terms for the end of WWII.

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

Order of President Harry S. Truman dropped nuclear weapons on these cities. Respectively, during the final stage of WWII

MacAuthor's Plan for Japan

Aug 24, 1945

Planned to divide Japan amongst themselves for purposes of occupation.

Formation of the U.N.

Oct 24, 1945

A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, to promote international co-operation.

Nuremburg Trials

Nov 20, 1945

Series of military tribunals held by allied forces.

Cold War

Apr 27, 1947

State of geopolitical tension after WWII between powers in Eastern Bloc. and Western Bloc.

Marshall Plan

Jun 3, 1948

United States gives over 13 million dollars in economically support to help rebuild Western European economies.

Berlin Airlift

Jun 24, 1948

One of the first major international crises of Cold War. Blocked allies railway, road, canal access to sectors of Berlin.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

A 13-day confrontation between the Untied States and Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy.

Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

Guarded barrier that divided Berlin. Families were separated and kept people from working in due of communism.